Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.
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It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
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The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!
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When reason fails, the devil helps!
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I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
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Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.
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If there is no God, everything is permitted.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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